Huntsville gazette., 1887-11-26
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The ownc photograph must now
appear on al passports in Turkey.
The best female lacemakers of Sax
ony are not able to earn more than
sixty cents a week.
The increase of postal business
Saade it desirable for the German Gov
Arnment to erect apostcpffice at Shang-
hal.
Samson, the French executioner,
beheaded 7.143 people in his official ca
reer, being 2ly year-rather busy
life.
The tomb of Mordecai and Queen
Esther is still visited by Hebrew pill
grims, and is well preserved in the CEN
ter of the town of Hamadan, in Persia.
More than two per cent. of all the
privates in the Russian army were pun
ished by courtmartial last year. Among
the offenses were five thousand robber-
les.
When the grandmother of the Khe-
dive of Egypt died short time ago one
hundred oxen were slaughtered and a
display of fireworks was made in the
evening.
The national debt of Great Britain
amounts to more than f20 for each in
habitant, but very few worry over the
matter. 1t is grocers' and butchers
bills which make us jump when the
door-bell rings.
Under the postal telegraph system
in England that is to say, manage
ment by the government of all tele-
graph lines-the number of messages
sent annually has increased from 9, ,000,-
900 in 1879 to $4,000, 900 in 1885.
In Paris an enthusiastic crowd in
sisted on carrying an unwilling
stranger, who had saved man from
drowning, to the police station to be re-
warded. There he was recognized as
an offender who was wanted for larceny,
and he was placed in prison.
1t may be news to some to learn
that most of the London hospitals are
without any endowment, their only
source of income being voluntary con-
tributions. Last wear these Institutions
cared for over million patient at an
expense of five million dollars.
The Dryphore, Noah 's-aik kind
of looking vessel, now moored off the
Cours-la- RENE, Paris. has for show a
giant oak, weighing about fifty tons.
This mammoth of prehistoric forest
was dug up from the bed of the Rhine,
where it is supposed to have lain over
three thousand years.
The Berlin Central Union for
Placing Labor provided last year five
thousand three hundred and five per-
sons, or more than sixty per cent of
the applicants, with work. No fee
whatever is exacted by the union, which
derives its support from the contribu
tions of employers. 1t promotes the
welfare of the laboring classes also by
reading rooms and by the aid given to
needy and unsuccessful applicants for
places.
The Lancet, which is a publication
admirably calculated to send nervous
persons into lunatic asylums, declares
that persons who drink large quantities
OF tea first become ''wildly excitable, "
and then ''the sense of hearing goes"
This is bad news for the Bishop Of Lon
don, who is the greatest drinker of tea
that has been known in England since
the death of DR.. Johnson London
Truth
The Prussian House of Lords num-
bers nominally 3l3 members, 81 of
whom are hereditary, while PIG are ap-
pointed for life. However, while 81
Prussian cities are entitled to seats in
the House, some of them practically
never avail themselves Of the privilege
Thus Konigsberg has been without
representative for nearly twelve years